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Chabad Research Unit — discourse summary ki tetze 5725 spiritual war and peace-5786 — Ki Teitzei 5786

Выпуск: Chabad Research Unit — discourse summary ki tetze 5725 spiritual war and peace-5786 — Ki Teitzei 5786. Темы: не определены автоматически. CHABAD ‫ב"ה‬ RESEARCH UNIT he Rebbe's Discourses T Summaries of points from the Rebbe’s Chassidic Discourses ‫בלי אחריות כלל וכלל‬ ‫פרשת כי תצא תשכ''ה ד''ה כי תצא בלתי מוגה‬ Republished for Shabbat Sedra Ki Tetze 9 Elul 5786, 22 August 20261 SPIRITUAL WAR AND PEACE T HE SEDRA BEGINS WITH RULES CONCERNING A BATTLE: “WHEN YOU GO OUT TO WAR against (lit. Indeed the two kinds of service connect together: the study of Torah after one has prayed in a meaningful way is enhanced because of the prayer, and also study of Torah 6 Ideally the opponents would accept the Seven Noachide Laws and the rule of the Jewish people, otherwise they would be killed. Especially through studying the inner dimension of Torah, and spreading its wellsprings in a way of peace, which leads to being redeemed in peace12 in the ultimate redemption, when the world will be filled with knowledge of G-d as the waters cover the sea...13 Torah teachings are holy – please treat these pages with care 9 Song of Songs 6:3 10 See Zohar I 1a. The process which Rabbi Shneur Zalman describes in Likkutei Torah is that during prayer one connects one’s Animal Soul, with its power of intense love originating in the spiritual element Fire, with its source in the [face of the Lion] in the Sacred Chariot7. Rabbi Shneur Zalman points out that in this struggle one should be ‘over’ one’s antagonist, namely the power of physical desire, which means recognising that this power of desire has a spiritual root above, in the sacred Chariot4. But as described here the battle in prayer has general holistic effect, transforming the root power of inappropriate lust5.] But if this is the case, the Maamar asks: how does this relate to Rashi’s explanation of this verse? The battle is with one’s own inner power of desire, which inherently seeks physical or material outlets, and the individual in prayer tries to cool its focus on physical pleasure and divert it to focus on love of the Divine. This links with the service of the month of Elul, which relates to the verse9 ‘I am to my beloved and my beloved is to me’ which in Hebrew ‫אני לדודי ודודי לי‬ has the initial letters of Elul ‫אלול‬. Rabbi Shneur Zalman in Likkutei Torah cites from the Zohar the idea that ‘a time of prayer is a tim

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